Gunnison, Colorado

Gunnison population, 2020 to 2024

Gunnison added 247 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Gunnison is 49% of it.

Gunnison covers 4.85 square miles of land, for 1,406 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Gunnison is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gunnison is in

All of Gunnison's residents live in Gunnison County, which had 17,310 residents in 2024. Gunnison holds 39.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gunnison

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gunnison by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 81230. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Gunnison is

The Census internal point of Gunnison is at 38.548000, -106.924600. Denver, the capital, is 132.6 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Montrose, CO (21,646 people), 50.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Colorado Springs, CO, 118.7 miles away.

Daylight in Gunnison

At 38.55° N, Gunnison gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gunnison

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Crested Butte, 22.3 miles away, with 1,643 people.